Chapter 218. Making appropriations for the Executive and for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 218.— An Act Making appropriations for the Executive and for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes. June 12, 1922.[[H. R. 9981](/us/bill/67/hr/9981).][[Public, No. 240](/us/pl/67/240).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums areExecutive and independent establishments appropriations. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Executive and for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, namely: 636 Executive.EXECUTIVE.
Compensation.compensation of the president and vice president. President.For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. Vice President.For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000. Executive Office.office of the president. Secretary, executive clerk, etc.Salaries: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; expert stenographers—one $3,000, one $2,500; accounting and disbursing clerk, $2,500; two correspondents, at S2,500 each; clerks—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,000 each, seven of class four, two of class three, four of class two, three of class one; messengers—three at $900 each, three at $840 each; three laborers, at $720 each; in all, $80,880:*Proviso*.Details of employees. *Provided*, That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $36,000. Printing and binding.Traveling, etc., expenses of the President.*Post*, p. 1530.For printing and binding, $3,000. Traveling expenses:
For traveling and official entertainment expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. Executive Mansion.executive mansion and grounds. Care, repair, etc.For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President mayFuel. determine, $50,000. Greenhouses.For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $12,000. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $9,000.
For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. For reconstructing greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $6,000. Improving grounds.For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $10,000. Fence.For constructing new iron fence in grounds of Executive MansionLighting. between the mansion and the south lawn area, $4,000. For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600.
Allen Property Custodian.ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. Services, supplies.Vol. 40, p. 415; Vol. 41, pp. 35, 977, 1147.*Ante*, p. 351.For expenses of the Alien Property Custodian authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October 6, 1917, as amended; including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, law books, books of reference and periodicals, supplies*Proviso*.Rent restriction. and equipment, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passengercarrving vehicles, $370,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission. 637 ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE COMMISSION.Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission.
To enable the commission created by section 23 of the PublicInvestigation and report by, on design for bridge, etc.Vol. 37, p. 885. Buildings Act approved March 4, 1913, to investigate and report to Congress a suitable design for a memorial bridge across the Potomac River from the city of Washington to a point at or near the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, together with such surveys and estimates of cost as they may deem advisable, to be expended under the direction of the commission and to remain available until expended, $25,000.
BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.Efficiency Bureau. For carrying on the work of the Bureau of Efficiency as authorizedSalaries and expenses. by law, including salaries and contingent expenses; supplies; stationery; purchase and exchange of equipment; printing and binding; traveling expenses; per diem in lieu of subsistence; not to exceed $100 for law books, books of reference, and periodicals: and not to exceed $150 for street car fare; in all, $145,000: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Pay restriction. person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One at $7,500, one at $6,000, three at $4,250 each, eight at $4,000 each, three at $3,600 each, one at $3,500, two at $3,250 each, five at $3,000 each two at $2,750 each, three at $2,400 each, and five at $2,000 each. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. Three commissioners, at $5,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500;Commissioners, chief examiner, etc.*Proviso*.Status of secretary. secretary, $2,500: *Provided*, That the secretary of the Civil Service Commission shall be deemed an employee for the purposes of this Act; assistant chief examiner, $2,400; chiefs of divisions—one $2,400 (who shall act as assistant secretary), two at $2,000 each; certification clerk, $2,000; examiners—seven at $2,400 each, three at $2,000 each, six at $1,800 each; clerks—six of class four, twenty-eight of class three, thirty-nine of class two, fifty-two of class one, thirty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; skilled laborer, $720; four messenger boys, at $420 each.
Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840;Custodian force. telephone switchboard operator, $720; two firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers at $660 each; four charwomen at $240 each; in all, $305,420. For additional employees for the Civil Service Commission, $100,000:Additional employees.*Provisos*.Pay restriction.Expenses, investigation of applicants. *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except five at $3,000 each: *Provided further*, That $40,000 of this amount may be expended only in connection with all expenses incident to investigations and research as to the character and training and experience of applicants for examination.
Field force: District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200,Field force. four at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, five at $840 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $45,680: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Estimates to include details for, from departments, etc. That the Civil Service Commission shall include in its estimates for 1924 items covering the field force detailed from departments and offices, and the heads of such departments and offices shall in their estimates for 1924 make corresponding reductions in the appropriations from which the employees detailed to the Civil Service Commission have been paid. 638 Details from departments, etc., forbidden.No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departments or other Government establishments in the District of Columbia,Exception. to the Civil Service Commission or its field force, excepting the fourth district, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia,Transfer of employees. shall be made for or during the fiscal year 1923.
The Civil Service Commission shall, however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board. Expert examiners.For employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. Civil service retirement Act expenses.Vol. 41, p. 619.To carry out the provisions of section 13 of the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, including personal services in Che District of Columbia, stationery, printing, purchase of*Proviso*.Pay restriction. books, office equipment, and other supplies, $40,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except one at $2,000 and four at $1,800 each.
Examining presidential postmasters.For examination of presidential postmasters, including travel, printing, stationery, contingent expenses, additional examiners and investigators, and other necessary expenses of examinations, $75,000:*Proviso*.Pay restriction. *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except five at not to exceed $3,500 each. Traveling expenses, etc.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $20,000.
Contingent expenses.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Civil Service Commission, including furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; supplies; advertising; telegraph and telephone service; freight and express charges; fuel, heat, light, and power; window washing; street car fares not to exceed $100; stationery; law books, books of reference, directories, newspapers, and periodicals, not to exceed $500; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles; maintenance and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; maintenance and repair of electric conduit; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries; and special-delivery stamps;*Proviso*.Motor passenger vehicle from Army. in all, $50,000: *Provided*, That within thirty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to deliver to the Civil Service Commission, without payment therefor, one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle.
Minor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).Hereafter section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase made by the Civil Service Commission when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25. Rent.For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $16,875, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control of that commission. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $65,000.
Commission of Fine Arts.COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS. Expenses.Vol. 36, p. 371.For expenses made necessary by the Act entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” approved May 17, 1910, includ-639 ing the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the commission, $6,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Pay restriction. That no person shall receive compensation hereunder at a rate exceeding $1,800 per annum and only one person shall be employed at that rate: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be expendedTraveling expenses limited. for traveling expenses other than those incurred by members of the commission for actual travel only in going to and returning from Washington to attend the meetings of the commission.
EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION.Employees’ Compensation Commission. Salaries: Three commissioners, at $4,000 each; secretary, $3,000;Salaries. attorney, $4,000; chief statistician, $3,500; chief of accounts, $2,500; assistant chief of accounts, $1,600; accountant, $2,250; claim examiners—chief $2,250, assistant $2,000, assistant $1,800, five assistants at $1,600 each; special agents—two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each; clerks—seven of class three, twelve of class two, twenty-seven of class one, three at $1,000 each; chief telephone operator, $1,000; messenger, $840; experts and temporary assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and temporary clerks, stenographers, or typists in the District of Columbia, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $100 per month, $9,000; in all, $123,940.
Contingent expenses: For furniture and other equipment and repairsContingent expenses. thereto; law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, and supplies; traveling expenses; printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office; medical examinations, travelingMedical examinations, etc. and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under sections 21 and 22 of the Act of September 7, 1916, and for miscellaneousVol. 39, p. 747. items; in all, $20,000.
Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensationCompensation fund.Allowances from.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745. provided by “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September 7, 1916, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section 9, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections 9 and 11 and advancement of costs for the enforcementRecoveries.Vol. 39, p. 747. of recoveries provided in sections 26 and 27 where necessary, and not exceeding $25 in any one case, accruing during the fiscal year 1923 or in prior fiscal years, $2,500,000.
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION.Federal Power Commission.Printing, etc., allowances. Not exceeding $4,000 of the appropriation contained in the Federal Water Power Act may be used for necessary printing and binding, and not exceeding $500 for law books, books of reference, and periodicals, during the fiscal year 1923. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.Federal Trade Commission. For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; inSalaries. all, $55,000. For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade CommissionAll other expenses. in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including personal and other services, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, printing and binding, garage rental, traveling expenses, including actual expenses at not to exceed $5 per day or per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, newspapers, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileage in accordanceVol. 38, p. 722. with section 9 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, $850,000. 640 General Accounting Office.GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE.
Comptroller General, Assistant, assistants,*Ante*, p. 23.Salaries: Comptroller General, $10,000; Assistant Comptroller General, $7,500; assistants to Comptroller General—four at $6,000 each; chief clerk, $3,000; chiefs of divisions—seven at $3,000 each; chief of appointment division, $2,500; assistants to chiefs of divisions—three at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each; chiefs of sections—ten at $2,500 each, thirteen at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each: assistant chiefs of sections—eleven at $2,000 each, one at $1,900; chiefs of subsections—three at $2,000 each; disbursing officer, $3,000; deputy disbursing officer, $1,800; private secretary, $1,800; attorneys—one $5,000, four at $4,000 each, four at $3,600 each, one $3,100, five at $3,000 each, one $2,750; law clerks—one $2,500, four at $2,400 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,200 each, nine at $2,000 each, four atAccountants, Investigators, clerks, etc. $1,800 each, one $1,600; accountants—one $2,500, two at $2,400 each, three at $2,100 each, three at $2,000 each; investigators—one $4,000, one $3,000, twenty at $2,000 each; reviewers—eight at $2,100 each; principal clerks—seventeen at $2,000 each; clerks—one hundred and sixty-four of class four, two hundred and eighteen of class three, two hundred and fifty-five of class two, two hundred and sixty-seven of class one, fifty-six at $1,000 each, seventy at $900 each; check assorters—four at $1,000 each; duplicating machine operator, $900; carpenter, $1,400; foreman of messengers and laborers, $1,400; chief messenger, $1,000; messengers—one $ 1,000, fifteen at $840 each; assistant messengers—twenty-nine at $720 each; laborers—one $720, twenty-one at $660 each; messenger boys—fourteen at $480 each, one $420; forewoman of charwomen, $660; charwomen—twenty-two at $240 each; and temporary clerks, stenographers, typists, and other assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $1,800 per annum, $375,000; in all, $2,293,190.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For traveling expenses, rent, telephone service, purchase and exchange of books, office supplies (including stationery) and equipment, repairs and maintenance, and miscellaneous items, $175,261. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, including monthly and annual editions of selected decisions of the Comptroller General, $25,630. Housing Corporation.Salaries in District of Columbia tor specified duties.UNITED STATES HOUSING CORPORATION.
Salaries: For officers, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties and the receipts from the operation of unsold properties of the United States Housing Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through the Secretary of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilities and others, $65,725:*Proviso*.Pay restriction. *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum and only one person may be employed at that rate;
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices at Washington, District of Columbia, including purchase of blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, freight and express charges; telegraph and telephone service; printing and binding; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, and necessary to collect moneys and loans due the corporation, $11,000; Appraisal expenses.Appraisal:
For the cost of appraisal under contract loans made to expedite transportation facilities, $6,000; Collections from sales, rentals, etc.Vol. 41, p. 224.Collections: For the collection of money due from the sale of real and other property under the provision of the Act approved July 19, 1919, the collection of rentals from unsold properties, including641 necessary office and travel expenses outside of the District of Columbia, $33,700; Washington, District of Columbia, Government hotel for GovernmentGovernment hotel, D.C.Maintenance, etc. workers:
For maintenance, operation, and management of the hotel and restaurants therein, including replacement of equipment, personal services, and printing, $925,000: *Provided*, That no person*Proviso*.Pay restriction. shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate; Maintenance, unsold property: To maintain and repair houses,Maintenance, etc., unsold property. buildings, and improvements, which are unsold, $5,000;
Miscellaneous expenses account of property sold: To pay taxes,Miscellaneous expense of property sold. special assessments, and other utility, municipal, State, and county charges or assessments unpaid by purchasers and which have been assessed against property in which the United States Housing Corporation has an interest, and to defray expenses incident to foreclosing mortgages, conducting sales under deeds of trust, or reacquiring title or possession of real property under default proceeding, including attorney fees, witness fees, court costs, charges, and other miscellaneous expenses, $10,000: *Provided*, That the United States Housing*Proviso*.Allowance of equitable claims.
Corporation is hereby authorized to allow as an offset any equitable claim in any collection made against any State or any political subdivision thereof; In all, $1,056,425: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations*Proviso*.Use of former appropriations restricted. heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission.
For eleven commissioners, at $12,000 each; secretary, $7,500;Salaries. in all, $139,500. For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the executionExpenses.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. of laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $2,150,000, of which sum there may be expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel,Employment of counsel. not exceeding $3,000 for necessary books, reports, and periodicals; not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule, and not exceeding $75,000 for rent of buildings in the DistrictRent, D.
C.*Provisos*.Condition. of Columbia: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission: *Provided further*,Stenographic work.*Post*, pp. 771, 1233. That the Interstate Commerce Commission may employ by contract or otherwise expert stenographic reporters for its official reporting work: *And provided further*, That the commission shallSale of copies of proceedings. sell, at a rate per page equivalent to the cost of making them, copies of transcripts of its proceedings.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce complianceEnforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34. p. 593; Vol. 36. p. 556; Vol. 41, p. 493. with section 20 and other sections of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June 29, 1906, and as amended by the Transportation Act, 1920, including the employment of necessary special accounting agents or examiners, $525,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.VoL 27, p. 631;
Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 36, p. 298.Accidents.Vol. 36, p. 350. regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliancesBlock signals, etc. intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906, and the provisionVol. 34, p. 838;
Vol. 35, p. 324; Vol. 38, p, 212. of the Sundry Civil Act approved May 27, 1908, including the employ-642Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.ment of inspectors, and per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $325,000. Safe locomotive boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913; Vol. 40, p. 616.For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of February 17, 1911, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilersVol. 38, p. 1192. and appurtenances thereto,” and amendment of March 4, 1915, extending “the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” including such steno-graphic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary, andPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, S290.000.
Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37. p. 701; Vol. 40, p. 271.*Ante*, p. 624.Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subjectIssues of stock, etc.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March 1, 1913, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and including notRent, D.
C.*Proviso*.Condition. exceeding $20,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $1,300,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission. Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $150,000, including not to exceed $10,000 to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks. Colorado River Commission.INTERSTATE GOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION, COLORADO RIVER.
Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 172.For salaries and expenses authorized in the Act approved August 19, 1921, entitled “An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes,” to be immediately available, $5,000. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.All expenses.NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS.
For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; traveling expenses of members and employees; office supplies, printing, and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical periodicals and books of reference; equipment, maintenance,Langley Laboratory. and operation of a research laboratory, known as the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory; maintenance and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; personal services in the*Proviso*.Clerical, etc., services. field and in the District of Columbia; in all, $200,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for clerical, drafting, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, shall not exceed $42,000.
Additional laboratory buildings.For the construction of an additional laboratory building necessary in connection with the operation of the research-laboratory, $10,000. Railroad Labor Board.Salaries.RAILROAD LABOR BOARD. For nine members of the board, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, $95,000. 643 For all other authorized expenditures of the Railroad Labor BoardAll other expenses.Vol. 41, p. 470. in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, supplies and equipment, law books and books of reference, periodicals, printing and binding, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence, rent of quarters in the District of Columbia if space is not provided by theRent.
Public Buildings Commission, rent of quarters outside the District of Columbia, witness fees, and mileage, $255,000. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For the system of international exchangesInternational exchanges. between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $45,000. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches amongAmerican Ethnology. the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $44,000.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperationInternational Catalogue of Scientific Literature, of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk hire, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500. Astrophysical Observatory:
For maintenance of the AstrophysicalAstrophysical Observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $15,500. national museum.National Museum. For cases, furniture, fixtures and appliances required for the exhibitionFurniture, etc. and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $20,000;
Heating, lighting,etc. For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, including the purchase of a new feed-water heater for the heating plant in the Natural History Building, $73,000; Preserving collections, etc. For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $312,620;
Repairs, etc. For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $10,000; Books, etc. For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, $2,000; Postage. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; In all, National Museum, $418,120. national gallery of art.National Gallery of For the administration of the National Gallery of Art by theAdministration expenses. Smithsonian Institution, including compensation of necessary employees and necessary incidental expenses, $15,000. printing and binding.Printing and binding.
For printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board ofAllotment. Regents, with general appendixes, the editions of which shall not exceed ten thousand copies, $10,000; under the Smithsonian Institution: For the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general644 appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $37,500; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, $21,000; for the Annual Report of the National Gallery of Art and for printing catalogues, labels and blanks, $1 ,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, $100; the National Zoological Park, S300; the Astrophysical Observatory, $300; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association,*Proviso*.No pro rata restriction. $7,000; in all, $77,400: *Provided*, That the expenditure of this sum shall not be restricted to a pro rata amount in any period of the fiscal year.
State, etc., Department Buildings.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS. Assistant to superintendent.Office of the Superintendent: For an assistant to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings in the administration of the force under the superintendent, $3,600. Main building.state, war, and navy department building. Operating force.Salaries: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—two of class one, one $1,000; chief engineer, $1,800; five assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; thirty-eight watchmen, at $720 each; carpenter, $1,000; chief electrician, $1,400; electrician, $1,200; machinists, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; seven skilled laborers or general mechanics, at $840 each; bricklayer, $1,200; messenger, $840; foreman of laborers, S840; chauffeur, $1,000; fourteen firemen, at $720 each; fifteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; two foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; forty-eight laborers, at $660 each; gardener, $720; three attendants, at $480 each; in all, $119,980.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repaire, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $54,000. Walker-Johnson Building.walker-johnson building. Operating force.Salaries: Engineer, $1,200; three firemen at $720 each; three elevator conductors at $720 each; five watchmen at $720 each; general mechanic or skilled laborer, $840; seven laborers at $660 each; attendant, $480; in all, $15,060. Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs and miscellaneous items, $8,500.
Potomac Park Buildings.potomac park office buildings. Operating force.Salaries: For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two, three of class one, two at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant engineers—one $1,600, four at $1,400 each; storekeeper, $1,200; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; foreman painter, $1,400; painters—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each;plumbers—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; machinist, $1,400; four switchboard operators, at $1,200645 each; four general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—captain, $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,080 each, three sergeants at $930 each, twenty-three at $780 each, twenty-three at $720 each; fire marshal, $1,080; foreman of laborers, $1,400; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $960 each; six foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; one hundred and forty laborers at $660 each; laborers and charwomen, $112,200; twenty-one female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $334,850.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and cityOperating expenses. directory, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used for official purposes only, $185,000. mall office buildings.Mall office build lags. Salaries: For the following employees for the maintenance andOperating force. protection of the temporary office buildings in the Mall (Units C, D, E, and F, located in Henry Park, Seaton Park, and the Smithsonian Grounds):
Assistant superintendent, $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, two at $1,000 each; two messengers at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant to chief engineer, $1,600; three assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; storekeeper, $1,200; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—four at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; foreman plumber, $1,400; two plumbers at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; foreman painter, $1,400; two painters, at $1,200 each; eight general mechanics at $1,000 each; firemen—six at $840 each, seven at $720 each; captain of the guard, $1,600; lieutenants of the guard—three at $1,080 each; fire marshal, $1,080; sergeants of the guard—three at $930 each, one $840; guards—eighty at $780 each; foreman of laborers, $1,400; two assistant foremen of laborers at $960 each; nine foremen or forewomen at $780 each; fifty-eight laborers at $660 each; laborers and charwomen, $63,360; ten female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $263,850.
For fuel, lights, repairs, motor cycle and truck repairs, supplies,Operating expenses. and exchange of same, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $117,000. temporary building (1800 virginia avenue).Virginia Avenue and 18th Street. Salaries: For the following employees for the maintenance andOperating force. protection of the building: Clerk of class one; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; six firemen, at $840 each; electrician, $1,200; carpenter, $1,200; general mechanic, $1,000; guards—three sergeants at $930 each, twelve privates at $780 each; foreman of laborers, $840; foreman or forewoman, $780; ten laborers at $660 each; laborers and charwomen, $5,280; two female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $38,650.
For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, miscellaneous items, printing,Operating expenses. and city directory, $22,300. temporary buildings.Temporary buildings. Salaries: For employees for the maintenance and protection of theBuildings designated. temporary office buildings known as follows: War Trade Building, between B and C Streets and Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest; Food Administration Building Numbered One, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets and C and D Streets northwest;
Food Administration Building Numbered Two, between New York646 Avenue and D Street and Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets northwest; Fuel Administration Buildings Numbered One and Two, bounded by Virginia Avenue, Eighteenth and C Streets northwest; Fuel Administration Building Numbered Three, on D Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest; H. L. Pettus Building, on Nineteenth Street, between Virginia Avenue and D Street northwest; and Archie Butt Building, seventeen hundred and twenty-fiveOperating force.
New York Avenue northwest: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, three of class one; two messengers at $840 each; electricians—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—one $1,400, three at $l,200 each; plumbers—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; steam fitter, $1,400; painters—three at $1,200 each; six general mechanics at $1,000 each; assistant engineers—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; thirteen firemen, at $840 each; six coal passers, at $720 each; guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,080 each, eight sergeants at $900 each, eighty privates at $780 each; fire marshal, $1,200; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $840 each; six foremen and forewomen, at $720 each; twenty-six laborers, at $660 each; five female laborers, at $480 each; laborers and charwomen, $43,560; in all, $203,480.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, miscellaneous items, city directory and printing, $109,000. State, etc., Department Buildings Commission.Acquiring designated squares of land, D. C., by; authorized.Condemnation proceedings.Vol. 28, p. 413.The commission in charge of the State, War, and Navy Departments Buildings, to wit, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy, is hereby authorized and directed to acquire by purchase, so far as they may be able to at prices deemed by them to be reasonable and fair, otherwise by condemnation in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved August 30, 1890, providing for a site for the enlargement of the Government Printing Office, the following squares of land for public purposes, to wit, the whole of squares known as numbers east of eighty-seven; east of eighty-eight; one hundred and twenty-four; one hundred and twenty-five; one hundred and forty-five; one hundred and forty-six; and one hundred and forty-seven, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as officially recorded in the officeReduction of area authorized. of the surveyor, District of Columbia.
The commission is further authorized to reduce the area to be acquired where by reason of improvements constructed, or unreasonable prices asked, or for other*Proviso*.Appropriation for purchase. reasons in their judgment the public interests may require: *Provided*, That if acquired by purchase, the cost of the squares, including expenses incident thereto, shall not exceed the sum of $1,500,000, which sum is hereby authorized and the same is hereby appropriated:Control of acquired property. *Provided further*, That the squares authorized to be acquired herein shall be under the control of the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Departments Buildings.
Tariff Commission.TARIFF COMMISSION. Salaries and expenses.For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, including purchase and exchange of labor-saving devices, the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference,Vol 39, p. 795. and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorized under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September 8, 1916, $325,000. Geographic Board.UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD.
Printing and binding.For printing and binding, $1,000. 647 UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD.Shipping Board. For seven commissioners, at $12,000 each; secretary, $5,000; inSalaries.Vol. 41, p. 990. all, $89,000. For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved SeptemberAll other expenses.Vol. 39, p. 728; Vol 41, p. 988. 7, 1916, as amended, including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including the rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, printing and binding, and actual and necessary expenses of members of the board, its special experts, and other employees, or per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13Per diem subsistence.VoL 38, p. 680. of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, while upon official business outside of the District of Columbia, $350,000.
No part of the moneys appropriated or made available by this ActUsing funds for repairing, etc., Government vessels other than at navy yards, etc., restricted. shall, unless the President shall otherwise direct, be used or expended for the repair or reconditioning of any vessel owned or controlled by the Government, if the expense of such repair or reconditioning is in excess of $100,000, until a reasonable opportunity has been given to the available Government Navy yards or arsenals to estimate upon the cost of such repair or reconditioning if performed by such navy yards or arsenals within the limit of time within which the work is to be done: *Provided*, That this limitation shall only apply to vessels*Provisos*.Applicable only to vessels in Amaican harbors.Effective at once. while in the harbors of the United States, and all expenditures in connection with such work are to be considered in estimating the cost: *And provided further*, That the provisions of this clause shall take effect upon the passage of this Act.
For the investigation of foreign discrimination against vessels andInvestigating discriminations against American vessels, etc. shippers of the United States, and for the investigation of transportation of immigrants in vessels of the United States Shipping Board, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, actual necessary traveling expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistencePer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $20,000. emergency shipping fund.Emergency shipping fund.
For expenses of the United States Shipping Board EmergencyExpenditures of Emergency Fleet Corporation, payable from. Fleet Corporation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, for administrative purposes, miscellaneous adjustments, losses due to the maintenance and operation of ships, for the tie-up, reconditioning and repair of ships, and for carrying out the provisions of the MerchantVol. 41, p. 988.Sources. Marine Act, 1920,
(a)the amount on hand July 1, 1922;
(b)$50,000,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the*Proviso*.Limitation. payment of claims other than those resulting from the current maintenance and operation of vessels;
(c)the amount received during the fiscal year 1923 from the operation of ships. For the payment of claims, damage charges and miscellaneousPayment of claims.*Post*, pp. 1242, 1280, 1925. adjustments, authorized under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, $50,000,000, of which $30,000,000 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no claim shall be paid out of the*Proviso*.Limitation. amount appropriated herein unless the Shipping Board shall find that such claim grew out of an agreement, expressed or implied, entered into with United States Shipping Board or the Emergency Fleet Corporation or their legal representatives. No part of the funds appropriated or made available in this Act forPublication forbidden. the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be expended for the648 preparation, printing, publication, or distribution of any newspapers, magazines, journals, or other periodicals, or for services in connection therewith, not including, however, the preparation and printing of documents and reports authorized and required to be issued by law. Attorneys subject to approval of Attorney General.No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Snipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States. Pay restrictions.No officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be paid a salary or compensation at a rate per annum in excess of $11,000 except the following: Six at not to exceed $25,000 each, and two at not to exceed $20,000 each. Auditing by Efficiency Bureau.No part of the sums appropriated in this Act shall be available for the payment of certified public accountants, their agents or employees, and all auditing of every nature requiring the services of outside auditors shall be furnished through the Bureau of Efficiency:*Proviso*Outside auditors for claims in litigation. *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall limit the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation from employing outside auditors to audit claims in litigation for or against the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Subsistence expenses.No part of the sums appropriated in this Act snail be used for actual expenses of subsistence exceeding $5 a day or per diem in lieu of subsistence exceeding $4 for any officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Rent in the District restricted.No part of the funds of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be available for the rent of buildings in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1923 if suitable space is provided for said corporation by the Public Buildings Commission. Claims not payable herefrom.No part of the sum appropriated in this Act shall be used to pay any claims of the United States Navy Department against the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation arising prior to July 1, 1921, or to pay any final judgment rendered in any suit authorized by the Act entitled Vol. 41, p. 525.“An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty, suits for salvage services, and providing for the release of merchant vessels belonging to the United States from arrest and attachment in foreign jurisdictions, and for other purposes,” approved March 9, 1920. Veterans’ Bureau.UNITED STATES VETERANS’ BUREAU. Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 147.For carrying out the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Veterans’ Bureau and to improve the facilities and service of such bureau and to further amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act approved August 9, 1921,” including salaries and expenses of the central office at Washington, District of Columbia, and regional offices and suboffices, and including salaries, stationery and minor office supplies, furniture, equipment and supplies, printing and binding, rentals and alterations, heat, light, and water, miscellaneous expenses, including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, law books, books of reference, periodicals, ambulance service, towel service, laundry service, repairs to equipment, storage, ice, taxi service, car fare, stamps and box rent, traveling and subsistence, salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigation,Passenger vehicles, etc. passenger-carrying and other motor vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, repairs, and operation of same, and not to exceed ten649 passenger-carrying vehicles at a total cost of not exceeding $7,500 may be purchased, salaries and operating expenses of the ArlingtonArlington Building expenses. Building and annex, including repairs and mechanical equipment, fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $34,970,974.65: *Provided*, That on or before the fifteenth day of each*Proviso*.Monthly detailed statement to Congress of employees, etc. month when Congress is in session, the Director of the Veterans’ Bureau shall transmit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a statement giving in detail
(a)the total number of positions at a rate of $2,000 or more per annum,
(b)the rate of salary attached to each position,
(c)the number of positions at each rate in the central office and in each district office or suboffice, and
(d)a brief statement of the duties of each position. Compensation: For military and naval compensation for deathMilitary and naval compensation. or disability, $160,000,000. Medical and Hospital Services: For medical, surgical, dental,Medical, hospital, etc., services to beneficiaries. dispensary, and hospital services and facilities, convalescent care, necessary and reasonable after care, welfare of, nursing, prosthetic appliances, medical examinations, funeral and other incidental expenses (including transportation of remains), traveling expenses, and supplies, and not exceeding $100,000 for library books, magazines, papers for beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, including court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, $64,658,680: *Provided*, That no part of the money hereby appropriated*Proviso*.Commutation restriction. shall be used for the payment of commutation of quarters, subsistence, and laundry or quarters, heat and light, and longevity to any employee other than the commissioned medical officers provided for by statute. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the United States Veterans’Disbursement and allotments of appropriation. Bureau, and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the War, Navy, and Interior Departments, and transferred to their credit for disbursement by them for the purposes set forth in the foregoing paragraph. The allotments to the said Board of ManagersImproving facilities at Volunteer Soldiers’ Homes. shall also include such sums as may be necessary to alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several branches under its jurisdiction so as to furnish adequate accommodations for such beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau as may be committed to its care. Expenditures authorized for Public Health Service allotments. The allotments made by the United States Veterans’ Bureau to the Public Health Service for the care of beneficiaries of that bureau by the said service shall also be available for expenditure by the Public Health Service on that account for necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, and clerical help in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, printing, freight, transportation and travel, repairs and necessary minor alterations, to hospitals and auxiliary buildings, and maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicles. The allotments made to the War, Navy, and Interior DepartmentsUse of War, Navy, and Interior Departments allotments. and other governmental agencies shall be available for expenditure for care and treatment of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and for minor improvement of existing facilities, under the various headings of appropriations made to said departments as may be necessary. Vocational rehabilitation: For carrying out the provisions of theVocational rehabilitation.Expenses of, for discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617, 1179; Vol. 41, pp. 159, 1379. Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,”650*Provisos*.Use restricted at camps. approved June 27, 1918, as amended, $146,409,188.80: *Provided*, That no part of the foregoing sum shall be used for the establishment, maintenance, or operation of training schools at any Army camp or cantonment acquired for use as a training center, except Camp Sherman,Construction work limited. Chillicothe, Ohio: *Provided further*, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be expended for construction work except necessary repairs. Sales of products of trainees.Under such regulations as the Director may prescribe, all surplus materials, supplies, and equipment acquired for the purpose of vocational*Post*, p. 666. training and articles produced by trainees may be sold and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury. Approved, June 12, 1922.